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Fightstar are a four-piece rock band from London, England. Formed in late 2003, Fightstar have since recorded and released three full length LP's, They Liked You Better When You Were Dead Grand Unification and One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
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Charles Robert Simpson (born 7 June 1985 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England), was the youngest member of the highly successful punk pop group Busted, and is now the vocalist and guitarist in alternative rock band Fightstar. ...
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They Liked You Better When You Were Dead is the debut EP from British post-hardcore band Fightstar. ...
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One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours is the second album by British post-hardcore/heavy metal quartet Fightstar. ...
History
Origins (2003 - 2004) Fightstar formed in late 2003 after Alex Westaway and Charlie Simpson met at a party in Charlie Simpson's London home. Following an impromptu jam session, westaway and Simpson decided to form a band. After a few songs had been written, the band recruited bassist Dan Haigh, a school friend of guitarist Charlie Simpson and drummer Omar Abidi. Charles Robert Simpson (born 7 June 1985 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England), was the youngest member of the highly successful punk pop group Busted, and is now the vocalist and guitarist in alternative rock band Fightstar. ...
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Charles Robert Simpson (born 7 June 1985 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England), was the youngest member of the highly successful punk pop group Busted, and is now the vocalist and guitarist in alternative rock band Fightstar. ...
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Fightstar's first album was heavily influenced by the author Chuck Palahniuk, with the band naming a song after him ("Palahniuk's Laughter") and including a drawing of Edward Norton's character in the film adaptation of the Palahniuk book Fight Club. Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk (pronounced )[1] (born February 21, 1962) is an American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist of Ukrainian ancestry born in Pasco, Washington. ...
Palahniuks Laughter is a song from Fightstars debut EP, They Liked You Better When You Were Dead. ...
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They Liked You Better When You Were Dead (2004 - 2005) Fightstar's debut album, They Liked You Better When You Were Dead, was released on February 28, 2005, following a rapid promotional tour of the UK. The release was deliberately constructed to be made ineligible for the British music charts.[citation needed] The release proved popular enough to warrant a reprinting on March 23, 2005. The first track, "Palahniuk's Laughter", enjoyed heavy rotation on music video channels and spent many weeks in charts based on video and radio requests. The track was originally entitled "Out Swimming in the Flood", but was renamed after the 2004 tsunami. They Liked You Better When You Were Dead is the debut EP from British post-hardcore band Fightstar. ...
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Initially, the band faced criticism from much of the British music press, because of Simpson's past career. Most vocal in the early days was Kerrang! magazine; however, the magazine quickly became one of the band's biggest supporters in the media, giving strongly positive reviews to early gigs and to the album.[citation needed] The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ...
The band's first single, "Paint Your Target" was released on June 13, 2005 in the UK, peaking at #9 in the singles chart. Their second single, "Grand Unification Part 1" was released on October 31, 2005, and peaked at #20 in the UK singles chart. Paint Your Target is the first single off the Fightstar album Grand Unification. ...
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A new version of the They Liked You Better When You Were Dead album was released in early 2006 through Deep Elm Records in America. Deep Elm Records is an independent record label putting out albums by bands such as The Appleseed Cast, Brandtson, The White Octave, and Planes Mistaken for Stars. ...
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Grand Unification (2005 - 2006) Fightstar went into the studio in October 2005 to start work on their second full length offering. They re-recorded three songs from their debut album, which were 'Mono', 'Hazy Eyes', and 'Lost like tears in rain'. They also recorded a new version of the first single 'Paint your target' which had originally been produced by Chris Sheldon. Fightstar released their full-length second album on 13 March 2006 through Island Records, entitled Grand Unification. Produced and mixed by Colin Richardson (Bullet for My Valentine, Machine Head, Funeral for a Friend), the album entered the midweeks at #11 and ended up debuting at #28 in the UK charts. Grand Unification was released in America in March 2007, along with a full US tour. Image File history File links Grand_unification. ...
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Further singles to be taken from this album were "Waste a moment", "Grand Unification (part 1)" and "Hazy eyes". The band also played a slot at the Download Festival at Donington Park Race Track and also headlined the Sunday of Welsh rock music festival The Full Ponty under Biffy Clyro and Funeral for a Friend. Fightstar toured with Funeral for a Friend for three months in 2006 covering such places as Australia, Japan and the United Kingdom. The Download Festival is a three day music festival held annually at the spiritual home of rock music in England: Donington Park (which hosted the Monsters of Rock Festivals between 1980 and 1996, and 2002s Ozzfest). ...
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Fightstar have also covered Metallica's "Leper Messiah" and Deftones' "My Own Summer" for Kerrang! magazine free CD giveaways during 2006. They have covered Deftones' "Minerva" acoustically, which is available on the 7" vinyl version of the "Waste A Moment" single. Metallica is a Grammy Award-winning American heavy metal/thrash metal band formed in 1981[1] and has become one of the most commercially successful musical acts of recent decades. ...
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Waste A Moment is the third single off the Fightstar album Grand Unification. ...
The band released their second album, Grand Unification, in the US and Canada on April 17, 2007. The release differs from the British and Japanese versions by including the "Hazy Eyes" B-Side and "Fight For Us" as a 14th track. Grand Unification is the debut album by British emo/post-hardcore quartet Fightstar. ...
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One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours (2007 - Present) Kerrang! magazine reported that Fightstar have set up camp on a farm in Northamptonshire (Al's Barn) to begin work on the follow up to their 2006 album Grand Unification. According to Simpson, Fightstar have already written four songs for the next album. He has also said that the band is a fan of Muse and Deftones in the way they push boundaries and aim to do the same.[citation needed] Northamptonshire (abbreviated Northants or Nhants) is a landlocked county in central England with a population of 629,676 (2001 census). ...
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The band hit the road for an extensive tour beginning at Glasgow Barrowlands on October 8, 2006 with a supporting cast that they personally hand picked,[citation needed] including The Blackout, The Receiving End of Sirens and Oceansize. For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation). ...
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On 8 September 2006 it was reported that Charlie Simpson had "torn up his contract" with his label Island Records, after the music bosses tried to force him into returning to a pop sound for his next Fightstar album. The former Busted star has struggled to be taken seriously as a musician and he has no intention of turning back now; Simpson is even considering a complete new start in America with the band, where he hopes he can tap into the ever-growing alternative rock market. He says, "Earlier this week we decided to tear up the contract. "They wanted a pop album and we didn't. I've put so much into this band I don't want to start compromising now. We're thinking about going to America. The market for our stuff is much bigger over there."[3] is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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On 19 September 2006, Simpson confirmed on Fightstar's official forum that they had left Island Records. Seven of the songs were demoed and were used on the album One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours. is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours is the second album by British post-hardcore/heavy metal quartet Fightstar. ...
The band are now signed to Institute Records, a brand new imprint of Gut Records. They recorded One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours in LA with producer Matt Wallace who has also produced the likes of Faith No More, Satchel, Deftones and Sugarcult. The album was released on September 24, 2007.-1...
One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours is the second album by British post-hardcore/heavy metal quartet Fightstar. ...
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On 4 April 2007, Kerrang! Radio debuted a new Fightstar song called "99", which is scheduled to be released as a free download-only single on the 23 April 2007. The music video for "99" can currently be seen on Scuzz TV. After circling Kerrang and Scuzz TV for 2 weeks, the video for "99" was finally playlisted on Kerrang TV on 4 May 2007. Fightstar have also launched a microsite for the download-only single, "99", on which you can download the single and the video for free, on 11 May 2007. [1] is the 94th day of the year (95th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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99 is a single by Fightstar, from their album One Day Son, This Will Be All Yours. ...
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99 (You And I) is the new single by Fightstar, though they have announced that it isnt going to appear on their second album, which is an eagerly anticipated follow up to 2006s Grand Unification. ...
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The first single to be taken from the album is "We Apologise for Nothing". The video for this song was shot on location in London's West End Apollo Theatre.[citation needed] The Apollo Theatre is a Grade II listed[1] West End theatre, designed by architect Lewin Sharp for owner Henry Lowenfield and is located on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. ...
"We Apologise for Nothing" was received well enough for it to reach number 1 in the UK independent chart.[2]
The music video for the second single, "Deathcar" was made available on the bands myspace on the 22 November 2007. Although appearing to be a low budget video, it is important to note that the version on myspace is an edited, "clean" version. After the release of the "uncut" version of the video on 28 November 2007, Charlie Simpson confirmed via a live forum chat on the band's official website that due to the last minute planning to release Deathcar a budget of only £500 was available. The band however confirmed they are "100% happy" with the shoot and enjoyed the change of making a lo-fi video. Westaway also confirmed on the live forum chat, that the band will be performing at Download 2008. Deathcar is the second single from Fightstars second album One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours, and was released on December 3, 2007. ...
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Deathcar is the second single from Fightstars second album One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours, and was released on December 3, 2007. ...
"Deathcar" went on to debut at #2 on both the UK Indie and Rock Charts.
The final single Floods made its debut at No.3 in the UK indie rock chart and had the most well received video so far for the band. The band did Radio 1 live sessions on this single campaign for Collin Murray and Dan P Carter. The single was also well received by Jo Whiley.
The band will go on a 10 date UK tour during May with support from London four piece Brigade and unsigned Essex band We Are The Ocean already confirmed. The tour will include a date at Carling Academy Islington on 29 May, and at the Leeds Slam Dunk Festival on 25 May The Carling Academy Islington is a music venue in Islington, London, England run by the Academy Music Group. ...
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The next single to be released from "One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours" has been confirmed through MySpace as "I Am The Message". It will be released on the 16 June 2008 as a double A side single with the other side being the bands cover of "Waiting For Superman" which they recorded for the Colin Murray Show on Radio 1. On the 30th June, the band will be releasing a B-side album called "Alternate Endings". At the Download rock festival of 2008, Fightstar told press they would be returning to the studio in August to start recording their next album due for mid 2009 is the 167th day of the year (168th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Record labels
UK - Island Records|Sandwich/Butty Leg: 2003 - September 2006
- Institute Records via Gut Records: February 2007 - present
US - Deep Elm Records: January 2006 - March 2007
- Trustkill Records: March 2007 - present
Discography -
Main article: Fightstar discography They Liked You Better When You Were Dead is the debut EP from British post-hardcore band Fightstar. ...
Grand Unification is the debut album by British emo/post-hardcore quartet Fightstar. ...
One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours is the second album by British post-hardcore/heavy metal quartet Fightstar. ...
References - Fightstar to tour with You Me at Six September 7 at musicscoop.net
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